THE  UNIVERSITY 
OF  ILLINOIS 
LIBRARY 


From  the  collection  of 
Julius  Do erner,  Chicago 
Purchased,  1918. 

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See  page  26. 


THE  WAY 


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A CHILD  TO  DO  GOOD. 


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school  Union,  in  the  Clerk’s  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the 
Eastern  District  of  Pennsylvania. 


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HOW  CAN  A CHILD  DO  GOOD  TO  THE 
HEATHEN  WITHOUT  MONEY  ? 

“ How  can  I do  good  to  the  hea- 
then without  money  ?”  and,  “ How 
can  I get  money  with  which  to  do 
good  to  them  ?”  are  questions  over 
which  I used  often  to  ponder.  I 
had,  from  different  causes,  become 
strongly  interested  for  the  poor, 
dark  idolater.  But  my  parents  had 

never  approved  or  adopted  in  our 
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way  for  a child 


large  family  the  plan  of  giving 
money  to  the  children.  I think 
they'  were  in  the  right;  but  we 
will  not  discuss  that  now.  Well, 
I had  no  money  then  to  give  to 
the  missionary  societies,  so  I tried 
to  think  what  good  to  the  cause  I 
could  do  without  it.  Perhaps  some 
of  the  young  readers  of  this  little 
book  may  be  in  the  same  situation 
with  myself;  let  us  see  then  what 
we  could  do. 

Our  distance  from  the  heathen 
prevents  us  from  employing  the 
means  we  could  ordinarily  use  to 
lead  souls  to  the  knowledge  and 
love  of  the  Saviour.  We  cannot 
teach  or  persuade  them,  or  even  set 
before  their  eyes  a holy  and  consist- 


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ent  example.  But  there  are  men 
who  are  willing  to  go  all  the  way  to 
them,  to  leave  their  native  shores, 
and,  in  a heathen  land,  spend  all 
their  time  in  publishing  to  sinful 
men  the  gospel  of  God’s  grace. 
Such  men  will  do  that  work  which 
we  are  unable  to  accomplish,  if  they 
can  be  sent  out  and  supported  by 
Christian  people.  You  and  I have 
no  money  to  give  to  defray  their  ex- 
penses and  assist  them  in  their  great 
work.  Our  duty  then  is,  to  use  all 
our  influence  with  others  in  this 
cause,  to  lead  those  who  have  the 
means  to  aid  the  heathen  and  the 
missionary.  Perhaps  some  of  you 
do  not  know  exactly  how  to  do  this. 
A few  examples  will  easily  explain. 


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Louisa  Gillod’s  father  came  home 
from  his  business  on  a freezing  win- 
ter evening.  Cold  and  fatigued,  he 
was  glad  to  draw  his  comfortable 
arm  chair  close  to  the  bright  coal 
fire.  “ It  will  be  half  an  hour  before 
tea,”  said  his  wife;  “the  cook  has 
gone  out,  so  I must  go  down  and  see 
about  getting  it,”  and  she  left  the 
room.  The  astral  lamp  was  burning 
on  the  table,  and  Louisa  was  sitting 
on  a stool  by  her  father. 

“Well  then,  my  daughter,”  said 
he,  “I  would  like  to  have  you  read 
aloud  to  me  this  half  hour.” 

“ What  would  you  like  to  hear  ?” 
asked  Louisa. 

“ Any  thing  that  is  interesting,” 
was  the  reply. 


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Now  Louisa  knew  that  her  father 
scarcely  ever  thought  of  religion,  or 
any  thing  connected  with  it;  hut 
she  knew  also  that  he  was  a sensible 
and  feeling  man ; so  bearing  in  mind 
the  poor  heathen,  whom  her  pious 
mother  had  taught  her  to  pity,  she 
ventured  to  commence  a very  inte- 
resting extract  from  Ellis’s  account 
of  the  Sandwich  Islanders.  Mr. 
Gillod’s  attention  was  engaged.  Af- 
ter tea,  he  commenced  the  regular 
reading  of  the  book.  Evening  after 
evening  he  took  it  up  and  read.  He 
was  much  struck  with  its  contents; 
and  when  he  had  finished  he  said, 
“That  really  he  did  not  know  or 
trouble  himself  much  about  either 
heathen  or  missionaries  before,  but 


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that  if  those  were  the  kind  of  things 
they  were,  and  the  kind  of  things 
they  did,  the  societies  ought  to  be 

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encouraged.”  Each  month  after- 
wards his  name  was  on  the  sub- 
scription paper  for  the  Foreign 
Missionary  Society. 

George  Nugent,  on  the  first  Mon- 
day of  five  successive  months,  suc- 
ceeded in  persuading  his  father’s  fa- 
mily to  attend  the  Monthly  Concert 
of  Prayer,  which  they  had  before  al- 
ways forgotten  or  neglected.  They 
are  now  much  interested  in  the 
cause  of  the  heathen,  always  attend 
the  Monthly  Concert,  and,  although 
the  father  is  only  a poor  shoemaker, 
and  the  mother  and  daughter,  who 
take  in  plain  sewing,  have  but  few 


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employers,  the  three  together  give 
yearly  fifteen  dollars  to  the  Board 
of  Domestic  Missions,  and  twenty- 
five  to  the  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions— forty  dollars  in  all ! 

Eliza  Randall  goes  to  school, 
where  the  scholars  sew  two  hours  in 
tl^e  afternoon.  Each  one,  in  her 
turn,  reads  aloud  to  the  others 
They  may  take  whatever  they  please 
for  perusal ; the  teacher,  of  course, 
first  looks  over  what  is  to  be  read. 
To-day  it  is  Eliza’s  turn  to  read,  and 
she  has  carried  a missionary  pe- 
riodical with  her  to  school.  She 
has  taken  this  means  of  interesting 
her  companions  in  the  cause  of  mis- 
sions. 

Mary  Lansing’s  friend,  Laura,  is 


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the  orphan  ward  of  a fond  old  grand- 
father. She  has  a great  deal  of 
pocket  money,  for  he  allows  her  a 
dollar  every  week.  How  often  have 
I heard  Mary  beg  Laura  to  remem- 
ber the  heathen  idolater,  and  not 
spend  so  much  for  cakes  and  candy. 

But  here  comes  Mary  into  the 
room.  She  says,  that  Laura  told 
her  to-day  that  she  meant  to  put 
aside  thirty -three  cents  every  week 
for  the  heathen.  Though  Laura  is 
a wild  girl,  a spoiled  child,  as  every- 
body says,  yet  I never  knew  her  to 

break  her  word.  So  Marv  will  have 

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been  the  means  of  bringing,  an  an- 
nual tribute  of  thirteen  dollars  into 
the  Lord’s  treasury. 

Emily  Fisher  is  now  twelve  years 


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old.  From  her  sixth  to  her  ninth 
year,  her  parents  lived  in  England, 
while  she  stayed  with  an  aunt  in 
America.  Every  fortnight,  her  mo- 
ther expected  to  hear  from  her  by 
the  packet  ship.  So  Emily  had  to 
write  a great  many  letters.  Both 
her  mother  and  her  aunt  were  very 
particular  about  the  rules  of  ortho- 
graphy and  grammar.  By  this  con- 

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tinual  practice,  she  gained  a facility 
and  propriety  in  expressing  her  ideas 
quite  uncommon  in  a child  of  her 
age.  When,  on  her  parent’s  return, 
she  went  to  school,  the  easy  style 
and  the  correctness  of  her  composi- 
tions were  observed  and  praised. 
Emily’s  parents  are  both  pious,  and 
for  the  last  year  we  have  hoped  that 


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Emily  is  pious  too;  for  she  has 
changed  much  in  many  things. 
And  in  proportion  as  she  has  be- 
come interested  in  behalf  of  her 
own  soul,  has  she  become  interested 
in  behalf  of  those  millions  of  souls 
who  know’  nothing  of  Christ  and  his 
salvation. 

Well,  how  does  Emily  do  good? 
She  has  not  any  money.  She  does 
good  with  that  which  she  has,  with 
the  talents  which  God  has  given 
her.  At  the  school  which  she  at- 
tends, the  scholars’  compositions  are 
read  aloud  to  them  every  Friday 
afternoon.  Yesterday  Emily  pre- 
sented one,  entitled  “ The  Poor  Hin- 
doo Child.”  She  brought  it  to  me 
before,  to  know  if  there  was  any 


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thing  exaggerated  or  improbable 
in  it.  No — it  was  but  a true  pic- 
ture; yet  one  to  which  I am  sure 
few  of  the  scholars  can  attend  on 
F riday,  without  feeling  a deep  com- 
passion for  the  thousand  benighted 
sufferers  who  are  at  this  moment 
living  witnesses  to  the  truth  of  the 
description,  or  without  being  obliged 
seriously  to  consider  the  conclud- 
ing sentence  : — “ My  dear  school- 
fellow's, can  none  of  us  do  any 
thing  towards  stopping  this  tide  of 
misery  ? ‘Why  sit  ye  here  all  the 
day  idle  V ” 

But  I have  not  yet  mentioned  the 
most  important  way  by  which  many 
do,  all  can,  and  all  ought  to  do  good 
to  the  heathen,  whether  they  have 


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money  or  not : it  is  by  praying  for 

THEM. 

Our  Saviour  is  as  willing  and  de- 
sirous that  children  should  approach 
him  now,  as  he  was  when  on  earth. 
He  then  said,  “ Suffer  little  children 
to  come  unto  me and  can  there  be 
any  object  for  which  he  will  be  more 
willing  to  hear  you,  more  ready  to 
answer  you,  than  that  one  for  which 
he  himself  lived,  laboured,  died? 
And  yet  have  we  not  all  reason  to 
ask  ourselves  how  we  have  perform- 
ed this  duty  ? Has  not  our  desire 
been  to  do  something  grand,  (grand 
for  us,)  something  that  will  show, 
something  upon  which  we  can  pride 
ourselves,  instead  of  having  simply 
a warm,  fervent,  sincere  wish  that 


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God’s  kingdom  may  come,  and  his 
will  be  done,  on  earth  as  it  is  in 
heaven?  How  many  of  ns  have 
often  repeated  the  Lord’s  prayer, 
thy  kingdom  come,  without  one 
thought  of  the  heathen,  one  glance 
at  a world  lying  in  wickedness.  O, 
let  us  resolve  that  from  this  time 
the  duty  of  praying  for  the  heathen 
shall  be  oftener  and  better  per- 
formed. 

And  now,  we  will  leave  off  talk- 
ing, and  go  about  acting.  Yet  I 
have  one  more  word  to  sav.  I have 
all  along  taken  it  for  granted,  that 
each  one  of  our  little  circle,  (for  I 
have  fancied  us  all  gathered  in  a cir- 
cle,) that  each  one  of  us  is  interested 
in  the  object.  We  must  take  a little 


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pains  to  preserve  this  interest.  We 
must  keep  up  and  accumulate  know- 
ledge respecting  these  heathen  peo- 
ple themselves,  the  success  of  the 
missionaries,  and  their  peculiar 
wants,  trials,  and  circumstances. 

And  now  good-by ; but  think 
over  what  has  been  said,  and  each 
one  of  you  choose  what  you  can , 
or  rather  what  you  will  do,  for  the 
heathen,  while  yet  without  any 


money. 


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PART  II. 

M '•  ■ v . ,•  ...  > V.  ■ 

HOW  CAN  A CHILD  RAISE  MONEY  FOR 

THE  HEATHEN  ? 

And  so,  my  young  friends,  we 
have  come  together  again,  to  learn 
more  about  doing  good  to  the  hea- 
then. The  last  time  we  met,  we 
saw  some  ways  in  which  we  might 
influence  others  to  give  money  to 
promote  the  spread  of  Christianity 
in  the  world.  We  can  pray,  too,  for 
this  object.  But  we  must  not  rest 
contented  here.  This  is  not  all  that 
we  can  do.  We  must  give  some- 
thing ourselves.  But  you  say,  “I 


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have  no  money  to  give.”  You  wish 
very  much  that  you  had,  but  father 
and  mother  do  not  give  you  any 
allowance.  None  of  us,  perhaps, 
have  more  than  a quarter  or  half  a 
dollar,  and  some  only  a few  cents. 
With  us  the  great  question  then  is, 
How  shall  wTe  get  money  for  this 
purpose  ? We  cannot  read  of  all  the 
misery  of  heathenism,  of  all  the 
blessings  of  Christianity — and  then 
hear  the  different  missionary  socie- 
ties and  missionaries,  and  even  hea- 
then people  themselves,  represent 
their  wrants,  and  call  aloud  for  aid, 
without  deeply  regretting  our  inabi- 
lity to  help  them.  Shall  we  not 
each  then  seriously,  earnestly  consi- 
der the  question,  How  can  I raise 


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money  for  the  heathen  ? — How  can 
we  ? Let  us  think. 

Is  there  no  little  thing  to  which 
we  have  been  accustomed  which  we 
can  deny  ourselves,  and  the  value 
of  which  we  can  receive  in  money  ? 
I should  think  we  might  all,  with 
the  consent  of  our  parents,  adopt 
the  plan  of  the  young  Lawrences. 
They  neither  drink  tea  nor  coffee. 
Each  has  a tumbler  of  clear  water 
(which,  by-the-by,  is  the  best  thing 
any  one  could  have)  set  on  the  table 
for  them  at  morning  and  evening 
meals.  So  there  is  saved,  among 
the  three,  a good  deal  of  milk  and 
sugar,  besides  the  tea  and  coffee, 
quite  the  worth  of  the  ten  cents 
which  their  mother  gives  to  each 


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one  every  week  in  return.  The 
Lawrences  are  mv  cousins;  but  I 
should  never  have  known  about  this 
arrangement  had  I not  discovered  it 
while  staying  at  their  house,  for  they  ' 
never  speak  of  it  themselves ; and  I 
hope  that  any  of  you  who  may  adopt 
their  way  of  saving  money,  or  any 
other  like  it,  will  follow  their  exam- 
ple in  this  particular. 

I knew  another  child  who  used  to 
go  without  butter,  and  received  in- 
stead the  price  of  the  quantity  she 
would  have  eaten,  say  six  and  a 
quarter  cents  a week. 

“ But  these  sums  are  so  small,” 
perhaps  you  say,  “they  seem  scarce- 
ly worth  the  trouble  of  earning.” 
You  forget,  however,  that  sixpence 


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a week  amounts  to  three  dollars  and 
a quarter  in  a year.  But  I do  not 
suppose  that  you  will  keep  collecting 
it  till  the  end  of  the  twelve  months* 
You  perhaps  put  one  yveek’s  earning 
into  a collection  taken  up  at  church 
for  the  missionary  society.  From 
that  society  it  is  sent  to  China. 
There  it  will  defray  the  expense  of 
printing  at  least  two  or  three  pages 

f>  I 

of  gospel  truth  in  the  native  Ian* 
guage.  This,  with  others,  is  given 
into  the  hands  of  a missionary.  By 
the  Chinese  people,  books  are  much 
sought  after  and  esteemed ; and 
whenever  the  missionary,  as  he 
passes  through  the  country,  brings 
forth  his  books,  multitudes  gather 
round  him  to  hear  and  to  receive. 


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As  he  reads,  the  words  fall  upon 
the  ears  of  many — in  some,  perhaps, 
they  reach  the  heart.  Yes!  who 
knows  to  how  many  they  may  prove 
the  power  of  God  unto  salvation. 
But  the  usefulness  of  the  books  does 
not  stop  here.  One  person  hands 
the  precious  gift  to  another,  and  he 
to  another,  and  so  the  little  volume 
travels  on,  and  on,  from  village  to 
village,  and  from  city  to  city,  pene- 
trates into  the  very  heart  of  the 
heathen  nation,  and  thence,  over 
rivers  and  plains,  until  it  reaches 
even  the  wild  uplands  of  Tartary. 
Along  its  track  it  has  kindled  a line 
of  gospel  light,  which  may  gladden 
many  souls  in  the  places  where,  for 
many  and  many  an  age,  the  people 


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have  sat  in  darkness.  Your  little 
mite  may  be  the  means  of  accom- 
plishing such  results  as  these.  And 
can  you  still  think  it  unworthy  of 

you  to  earn  to  and  give  something 

• ' ' 

towards  the  salvation  of  men  ? 

But  let  us  return  to  the  question, 
How  shall  we  raise  money  for  the 
heathen?  And  now,  if  you  will 

imagine  that  it  is  a bright  summer 

€ 

morning,  just  five  o’clock,  and  that 
you  are  walking  \vith  me  to  Mrs. 
Carrol’s  house,  I will  show  you  a 
way  to  earn  it.  Here  we  are  at  the 
door.  Let  us  go  up  stairs  to  the 
back  room  in  the  third  story.  Now, 
peep  in  there,  and  you  will  see  little 
Ellen,  at  this  early  hour,  closely  en- 
gaged with  her  needle.  Notice  the 
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expression  of  happiness  beaming  in 
her  countenance.  She  has  thrown 
open  the  window,  and  the  fresh 
morning  air,  as  it  breathes  over  the 
hill  on  which  the  house  is  situated,  is 
delightful.  ( See  frontispiece.)  Her 
eyes  stray  for  a moment  from  her  fin- 
gers to  the  waking  city  beneath,  and 
the  green  velvet  slope  beyond,  the 
browsing  cattle,  the  opening  flowers, 
and  the  fluttering  birds,  who  are 
sounding  their  early  carols  from  the 
gardens  and  hills  around.  But  she 
soon  returns  to  her  work  with  readi- 
ness and  pleasure.  As  all  seems 
bright  and  happy  without,  so  Ellen 
within  is  bright  and  happy  too.  I say 
she  feels  bright — for,  although  she 
rose  at  four  o’clock,  she  is  not  sleepy  : 


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she  went  to  bed  at  eight;  and  she 
is  happy,  for  she  is  engaged  in  an 
employment  which  gives  her  great 
delight.  She  is  working  for  the 
heathen.  Those  shirts  she  is  mak- 
ing: are  for  a brother  at  the  south. 
Her  mother  was  going  to  put  them 
out  to  be  done ; but  Ellen,  anxious 
to  gain  money  for  her  favourite  ob- 
ject, begged  leave  to  rise  and  work 
on  them  before  breakfast,  and  receive 
the  pay  of  the  seamstress.  She 
works  for  her  mother  all  the  rest  of 
the  day,  and,  having  no  other  time 
which  she  can  call  her  own,  she 
willingly  sacrifices  these  two  hours 
of  unnecessary  sleep  for  a purpose 
so  much  beloved.  Can  none  of  us 
follow  her  plan  ? 


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But  go  to  the  next  house,  and 
knock  at  the  door  of  her  friend, 
Sarah  Ward.  You  will  find  her 
busy  too,  and  with  her  brothers, 
Charles  and  Edward,  sitting  at  the 
round  table  in  the  middle  of  the 
room.  It  is  strewed  with  paints, 
and  plates  rubbed  all  over  with 
colours,  and  there  are  three  piles  of 
picture  books.  They  are  colouring 
the  prints.  Do  you  see  ? Their 
father  procured  the  pictures  from  a 
bookseller  for  them  to  paint,  and  he 
will  pay  them  a dollar  and  a quarter 
for  every  hundred  sheets  they  co- 
lour. They  will  each  paint  ten 
sheets  before  breakfast,  or,  if  not  so 
soon,  before  school-time.  They  are 
doing  this,  so  that  they  can  put  their 


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names  upon  the  church  subscription 
paper,  and  so  be  able,  every  month, 
to  give  regularly  to  the  cause  of 
missions.  My  young  friends,  can 
none  of  us  follow  their  plan  of  rais- 
ing money  ? 

And  now  it  is  time  that  we  should 
turn  to  go  home;  but,  before  we  se- 
parate, we  must  think  of  some  other 
ways  in  which  children  like  our- 
selves can  gain  money  for  the  hea- 
then. Some  of  us,  perhaps,  can  do 
like  Henry  Somers.  He  lives  in 
New  York,  where  the  gardens  are 
generally  small.  His  father’s  yard 
is  rather  larger  than  usual,  so  that 
he  gave  Henry  a piece  of  the  wide 
border  for  his  own.  As  Henry  was 

one  day  thinking  how  he  could  raise 
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money,  he  formed  this  plan,  to 
which  both  of  his  parents  agreed. 
It  was  to  cultivate  and  sell  common 
vegetables,  such  as  beets,  carrots,  and 
radishes,  in  his  little  garden.  His 
father  gave  him  the  necessary  seeds, 
and  his  mother  promised  to  let  the 
servant  boy  carry  the  produce  to 
market  to  be  there  disposed  of.  Al- 
most any  morning  or  evening  Henry 
may  now  be  seen  digging,  weeding, 
or  watering  his  ground.  Sometimes 
inclination  strongly  urges  him  to 
stay  to  play  with  his  companions  in 
the  evening,  and  to  neglect  to  water 
the  plants,  which  had  been  scorch- 
ed all  day  by  the  hot  sun ; and 
sometimes  indolence  begs  most  pite- 
ously for  farther  repose,  when  he  is 


TO  DO  GOOD. 


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wakened  early  to  gather  his  plants, 
and  tie  them  in  bundles,  ready  for 
market,  before  the  sun  shall  become 
bright  and  powerful.  But  self-de- 
nial and  exertion,  coupled  with  much 
patience  and  perseverance,  are  ne- 
cessary for  one  who  intends  to  do 
good. 

Well!  is  there  nothing  like  this 
that  we  can  do  ? I say  like  this,  for 
in  bringing  forward  these  particular 
cases,  I do  not  in  the  least  intend  to 
imply  that  they  are  the  only  methods 
which  we  are  to  try.  We  must  each 
think  over  our  own  situation,  and  all 
its  circumstances,  the  practicability 
of  these  schemes,  and  what  others 
would  be  more  useful,  more  pleasant, 
tor  more  expedient ; and  especially 


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WAY  FOR  A CHILD 


must  we  regard  the  feelings  of  our 
parents.  There  are  many  things  to 
be  considered  in  choosing  in  what 
way  to  raise  money  for  the  heathen. 

There  is  another  most  effectual 
method  of  accomplishing  this  ob- 
ject which  I have  not  yet  mentioned, 
but  with  which  all  of  you  are  proba- 
bly more  or  less  acquainted.  It  is 
that  of  joining  in  juvenile  societies, 
to  meet  and  make  needle  or  fancy 
work  for  sale.  In  many  respects, 
this  is  a most  excellent  way  for 
children  to  earn  money. 

But,  as  I said  before,  it  is  time 
that  we  should  separate;  so  I will 
not  dwell  on  this  subject.  It  is  suf- 
ficient that  I remind  you  that  there 
is  scarcely  any  way  in  which  you 


TO  DO  GOOD. 


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can  be  more  useful  in  gaining  mo- 
ney for  the  heathen,  than  by  be- 
coming a regular  and  industrious 
member  of  a missionary  sewing  so- 
ciety. 

And  now,  my  young  friends,  if 
any  of  you  have  felt  as  though  you 
could  do  nothing  for  the  heathen, 
and  have  been  sad  at  the  thought, 
cast  away  the  idea  at  once.  Though 
you  are  nothing  but  a child,  a very 
young  child  perhaps,  you  surely 
^nust  be  convinced  that  you  can  do 
something.  You  have  seen  how 
much  you  may  accomplish  by  influ- 
encing and  interesting  others  in  the 
cause  of  the  heathen;  how  much 
you  are  encouraged  to  pray  for 
them ; and  how  many  means  you 


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can  devise  for  obtaining  money,  to 
aid  more  directly  in  sending  to  them 
the  gospel  and  happiness.  “If  ye 
know  these  things,  happy  are  ye  if 
ye  do  them.” 


THE  END. 


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